单词 | earth-threatening |
释义 | > as lemmasearth-threatening earth-threatening adj. that puts the existence of the earth in danger. ΚΠ 1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido i. sig. A2 This earth threatning aire, That shaken thrise, makes Natures buildings quake. 1980 Los Angeles Times 7 Dec. vi. 5/2 In last year's ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture’, unknown aliens transformed our long-lost Voyager probe into an Earth-threatening monster. 1996 Nature 25 Apr. p. vii/1 A mechanism by which this asteroid and others might be perturbed into Earth-threatening orbits. < as lemmas |
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